TAXI DRIVERS

Together with three other guests, you are picked up by a taxi. The seemingly nice, talkative and somewhat frustrated driver takes you to areas of the city you wouldn’t normally go to. He has something he would like to show you … There are people who feel that the state has taken away our freedom and has enslaved us all. The very state that can’t even take responsibility for our safety and our freedom. In TAXI DRIVERS, the driver talks about the customers he has encountered, about his powerlessness and the feeling of futility. But he hasn’t given up, on the contrary, he has taken matters into his own hands. He wants to take action and clean up the mess, he just doesn’t know how to. But maybe it’s on this journey with you that he makes a difference – and he’s not alone, because maybe you feel the same way he does… In this new, immersive production by Danish collective Fix+Foxy, Düsseldorf becomes the backdrop for a road trip that confronts every passenger with their own potential for radicalisation and opens their eyes to increasing social inequality. What can make you really angry? And perhaps more importantly, how do you deal with this anger?

Fix+Foxy have been producing theatre pieces, performance art and immersive installations for 20 years. At the asphalt Festival 2025, they wowed audiences with »A Doll’s House«, an adaptation of Ibsen’s »Nora« staged in private flats in Düsseldorf, and in 2022 with their multi-award-winning western »Dark Noon«. asphalt will continue its collaboration with Denmark’s most successful independent theatre group in the coming years.

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What the press says:

»TAXI DRIVERS has become a more insightful social analysis than most expensive TV documentaries.«
Kulturkupeen

This is not a performance where you can sit back and enjoy the show – because we were there. TAXI DRIVERS is a bold innovation! Do you dare to take this ride?«
Cultural information

»In this crash test of a performance, the concept is pushed to its limits – the audience is the performance.«
NORDJYSKE

»It’s a kind of therapy – you get to know yourself better while you’re trapped in a taxi and exposed to whatever unfolds. There is no way of knowing how it will end. The idea and the experience can change from one encounter to the next.«
Cultures.nu

»This highly significant form of political theatre is about our bodies and our minds.«
iScene

»TAXI DRIVERS is a surprising and provocative little spark of contemporary theatre with a big message.«
Magasinet KBH

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